and we let our elected leaders invite them in.
Somehow it is “hate” to not want to let in people who hate.
To be true to our national creeds requires us to acknowledge that each of us bares some part of shared responsibility for this atrocity, however small or great. Even those who may have worked at great cost to thwart the lumps who betrayed, and who are still betraying, our nation failed in some way. We, ourselves slipped up in some fashion, as well, or we idled or diddled away somewhere along the way.
Slackness, "a little folding of the hands to rest" along the way surely contributes to these horrors.
What better time than Memorial Day to remember the cost so often paid for our freedom, to remember to take our nation and the lives and liberty of our neighbors seriously?
The God of Abraham have mercy, and grant us wisdom and a surer sight, so our ruin will not "come upon us suddenly, like an armed man."
Our elected leaders opened the gate and are letting them in